Mastodawn

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes/116192434654015384

I have been watching this story simmer for several days. I've been wary of it. It fits too neatly into the criticisms and warnings many of us have been raising. But it's starting to look like, yes, they are using an LLM to make critical decisions.

At the same time I have heard parts of speeches from the US Secretary of War.* I have been dismayed by his shallow thinking. It doesn't help that his speeches also sound like they are also composed by an LLM.

*formerly Defense

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myrmepropagandist Mar 8

His speeches sound LLM generated because they are filled with so many cliches and empty sentences. And because they sound nothing like they way he speaks extemporaneousnessly. Of course this could just be a bad speech writer. Or it could be that when your ideas are bad no words can fix it.

The Department of War will not even say if they missed or not. Did they *want* to hit that school? If not the school then what?

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myrmepropagandist Mar 8

Right wing war hawk commentators are saying that hitting a civilian target, a school filled with little girls is "good strategy, actually" we, the soft-handed peace-nicks are simply not smart enough to understand the strategic power of this action.

But, if the Department of war won't say it remains unclear if this atrocity is based on incompetence or dim-witted malice.

update: We can infer that they "missed"
https://shakedown.social/@AAronL1968/116193541496761440

AAron Leckinger (@[email protected])

When MAGA suggests Iran bombed their own girls’ school, ask if they bombed their own hospitals, too. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-school-us-strikes-naval-base.html

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myrmepropagandist Mar 8

The events feel unreal but the deaths are very real. This is not a video game. This is not a text adventure.

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myrmepropagandist Mar 8

My disgust for war, for the military, is not the result of being sheltered.

I hate your wars because I know exactly what they are and how when violence occurs it reverberates for generations.

Someone has lost a daughter and with her many of their reasons for living. What grim task will they devote themselves to?

What would you do, Pete, if they killed your family? Do you think you are the only person who loves their children?

I think you must.

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LisPi

@futurebird

What would you do, Pete, if they killed your family? Do you think you are the only person who loves their children?

Does he though? I expect that much of the USA's war-supporting population cares about their children like one cares about an expensive status-symbol object.

Replaceable, insultable, without any rights. An object.

Of course insulting a status symbol still involves an ego-based violent reaction, but I don't think they can actually feel the emotions normally involved.